The end of a government

Sunday, January 15, 2012

OBEDIENCE in the government, in a way will spell the issue of good governance and the way things are supposed to be run for the good of the citizenry. The sword (civil authority) had been placed in the hands of our officials to punish those who are defiant and law breakers, but when the sword is raised against the very people our officials have vowed to served, it comes in conflict with their oath and in the process betrays the very persons they are sworn to protect.

Ninoy Aquino once said” The Filipino is worth dying for”. The works of Ninoy Aquino changed the political and economic landscape of our country. We considered his death as first “Filipino Great Awakening.” His life help set in motion some of the very forces that eventually brought our country to political freedom. Most historians agree that Ninoy Aquino stands with José Rizal –one of the two outstanding minds of the 18th and 19thcenturies who led us to the path that had made and preserved us as a nation.

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But today the scene turned into a nightmare. Are we Filipinos worth dying for? Some of us wallowed into materialism, self-centeredness, greed, pride and hunger for power. Our courts that once frowned on wrongs granted freedom to everyone to do their own perspective of right and wrong. Are we seeing a time when all sorts of ungodly behavior become acceptable and even admired? We are no longer shocked. Our eyes grew accustomed to the dark .Dog eats dog, fire vs. fire, traitors vs. traitors, corrupt vs. corrupt, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Only few of us rise up for outrage. When justice and righteousness fades out from a nation’s conscience, its leaders and its people, it’s not worth dying anymore. The Philippines once legislated against those things that are wrong. But some of us gradually began to tolerate then accept and condone openly and even promote which were unthinkable. The perversion and degradation that once made us blush are now flaunted before the eyes of our nation that was before conceived in the eyes of God. It has happened little by little, right before our own eyes, not because someone forced it on us, but seemingly because some of us didn’t care. Many tried to camouflage wrong doings with new terminology. We use to call it ‘drunkenness’ -we call it alcoholism –now a social decease. We used to call it ‘sodomy”-we call it homosexuality –now gay rights on alternative lifestyle. We used to call it ‘perversion’ –we call it pornography –now an adult entertainment .We used to call it-‘immorality’-now we call it the new morality. We used to call it ‘cheating’, “graft and corruption’- now we call it abnormal social development.

Our government now is in critical stage .Some of our leaders have become so abusive to the extent that others rights are trampled upon .Well, it’s so hard to cleanse the dirt and stink that has penetrate the military and in almost areas of our government. The iniquity of our system is in big trouble that causes many conflicts in our present time. The failures and successes of our leaders affect our lives, only few tried to rise up in order to bring out justice in the system that gone went wrong. According to James H. Fairchild in his book Mind Philosophy “most grievous of all imperfections is the failure to secure the just and the good results.” That is why the abuse of power in the form of oppression, graft and corruption, malpractices ,cheating and the likes are rampant in a government when it officials themselves begin to be obsessed with power that usually turn them into tyrants. The result then would be upheavals, rise of arms, coup attempts revolution and many various forms of disobedience, grave threats of political instability and terrorism. It should be noted that the government is the people themselves that laws are nothing and authorities are nothing without the very essence of it -the people.